mineralize

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

transitive v. To convert to a mineral substance; petrify.

transitive v. To transform a metal into a mineral by oxidation.

transitive v. To impregnate with minerals.

intransitive v. To develop or hasten mineral formation.

intransitive v. To collect or study minerals.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To convert to a mineral; to petrify

v. To impregnate with minerals

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

intransitive v. To go on an excursion for observing and collecting minerals; to mineralogize.

transitive v. To transform into a mineral.

transitive v. To impregnate with a mineral.

transitive v. To charge or impregnate with ore.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To change from the metallic character to that of an ore.

To go on a minoralogical excursion; make an excursion with the view of collecting minerals. Also spelled mineralise.

To impregnate with mineral substances, as metallic salts: thus, the water of a particular spring may be spoken of as more or less strongly mineralized.

In mining, to introduce, in solution or otherwise, a new mineral or ore into (surroundings where it did not previously exist, as, for example, into a fissure or into shattered or porous rock). The rock is then said to be mineralized.

Xylitol is a natural sweetener that is considered "tooth friendly" by dental professionals, as it can actually "starve" the negative micro-organisms that damage teeth, allowing the teeth to re-mineralize faster.

· Making it impossible for the medium matter (formed as a result of incomplete dissolution) to mineralize rapidly, to continuously release energy and produce various NH4+ and PHO4 - ions, and to renew the humus in the soil.

These microbes, like many others, continuously mineralize organic substances, and thus exhibit themselves as the indispensable agents of the movement of the matter that incessantly circulates from the mineral to the organic world, and _vice versa_.